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Arches scaligères

Dernière mise à jour le 9 novembre 2026
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Ouvert Closed for the season
Fermé Seasonal closure since 2 November 2026
Entrée Gratuit
Exception Readable from the street at any hour, through the railing

Horaires vérifiés novembre 2026

Dans un petit enclos près de l’église Santa Maria Antica, à une minute de la piazza dei Signori, se dressent les tombeaux de la famille della Scala, qui a gouverné Vérone tout au long du XIVe siècle.

Ils comptent parmi les plus beaux monuments funéraires gothiques d’Italie : des dais de pierre sur colonnes, chacun portant un sarcophage, chacun surmonté du seigneur défunt à cheval en armure complète.

L’ensemble est clos d’une grille de fer forgé portant l’emblème de la famille, une échelle — scala — répétée encore et encore. C’est un blason employé comme architecture, et cela fonctionne.

Ce qui rend Arches scaligères unique

La difficulté pour les visiteurs

The enclosure is shut for the winter — it closed on 2 November 2026. That is the whole trap, and it costs nothing to avoid once you know it: the tombs are in a small walled yard that the comune opens seasonally, and outside the season you read them from the street through the wrought-iron railing. Which, as it happens, is where the best of them is anyway.

There is also no ticket to buy. When the enclosure is open, entry is free but reserved — you need a ticket already used that same day at another of Verona's civic museums, or a VeronaCard, a Veneto MyCARD or a My IMUV Card. Cash at the gate is not one of the options.

Vérifié auprès de Comune di Verona, novembre 2026.

Conseils et stratégie de visite

Quand y aller

Morning light is best for photographing the tombs through the railing, which is otherwise awkward.

Any season works for a street-level look, since there is nothing to enter.

Early or late in the day avoids the flow between Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza dei Signori, which is heavy in the middle of the day in season.

To go inside the enclosure, check opening in advance -- it is not reliably open outside the main season.

En profiter vraiment

Look up, and look through. The tombs are seen from the street through the ironwork, which is adequate because the monuments are tall and the enclosure is tiny — the equestrian figures on top are the point and they are above the railing line anyway.

Stand on the corner towards Santa Maria Antica for the clearest angle through the grille. Twenty minutes covers this fully; treat it as a stop between Piazza dei Signori and the rest of the centre rather than a visit, and do not plan the day around getting inside the enclosure, which opens irregularly.

Ce que ça coûte

Nothing, from the street. The railing, the tombs behind it and Cangrande I on the highest of them are public and permanent, at any hour.

Inside the enclosure is free but conditional, and only in season. It is reserved to holders of a ticket already used that day at another civic museum or monument, to VeronaCard and Veneto MyCARD holders, to My IMUV Card holders, and to the other categories entitled to free entry. There is no standalone ticket for the Arche at any price.

S'y rendre et entrer

Entrée: Gratuit · Free but reserved: a ticket used the same day at another civic museum, or a VeronaCard, Veneto MyCARD or My IMUV Card. No standalone ticket exists
Prix vérifiés en novembre 2026

Les tombeaux sont visibles gratuitement depuis la rue à travers la grille de fer, ce qui est la façon dont la plupart les voient et qui suffit réellement — l’enclos est petit et les monuments sont hauts.

L’accès à l’intérieur de l’enclos est possible sur billet, souvent combiné avec la Torre dei Lamberti, mais l’ouverture est limitée et saisonnière.

Ils se dressent à côté de Santa Maria Antica, à une minute à pied de la piazza dei Signori et à cinq de la piazza delle Erbe.

Prévoyez quinze à vingt minutes. C’est un arrêt au sein d’une promenade dans le centre plutôt qu’une destination.

La rue au-dehors est de plain-pied et accessible ; l’enclos lui-même a un pavage historique inégal.

Vérifié auprès de Comune di Verona, novembre 2026.

Accessibilité du lieu

The view that matters is from the street, and the street is flat. A paved lane a minute from Piazza dei Signori — no steps, no gate, no ticket — and the wrought-iron railing is as much the exhibit as the tombs behind it. Verona's destination portal answers its own accessibility question for this monument with "completely accessible".

That makes this one of the few monuments in the city where the out-of-season, no-entry version is not a lesser visit. Cangrande I sits on the highest canopy and is read from outside the railing by everyone, ticket or no ticket.

Inside the enclosure is a finer question than the portal's answer covers. The ground in there is historic paving in a confined yard, and whether the gate itself has a step is not something anyone publishes — a tourist board calling a monument accessible is a judgement about the monument, not a survey of its threshold. If getting inside the railing matters, ask the civic museums before you plan around it.

Vérifié auprès de Visit Verona, novembre 2026.

Informations essentielles

  • Type: Monument
  • Entrée: Gratuit
  • Réservation: Non requise — billets sur place
  • Visite typique: Environ 20 minutes
  • Construit: 14th century
  • Construit pour: the della Scala lords of Verona
  • Conçu par: Bonino da Campione (Cansignorio’s tomb)
  • Style architectural: Gothique italien
  • A coat of arms used as a fence: The wrought-iron enclosure repeats the della Scala emblem -- a ladder, scala -- over and over, turning the family arms into the structure that guards them.
  • What the 2004 examination found: Cangrande I’s tomb was opened in 2004 and his body examined; the analysis found lethal levels of digitalis, consistent with the poisoning his contemporaries suspected.
  • Site du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO: Oui

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Visite responsable

Les tombeaux sont en marbre blanc exposé, resté à l’air libre depuis sept siècles, et leur état s’en ressent. Ne touchez pas la pierre de la grille et ne vous appuyez pas sur l’enclos.

C’est une rue étroite sur un itinéraire piéton fréquenté. Les photographes qui s’arrêtent à la grille la bloquent facilement — écartez-vous plutôt que de rester dans le flux.

Santa Maria Antica, à côté, est une église en activité ; restez silencieux près de sa porte.

Voir la statue originale de Cangrande à Castelvecchio plutôt que la seule copie d’ici vaut le billet du musée, et soutient la collection qui la conserve.